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    Immure is defined as to entomb or to imprison.

    An example of immure is to trap someone in an attic.

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immure

transitive verb

-·mured′, -·mur′ing
  1. to shut up within or as within walls; imprison, confine, or seclude
  2. to entomb in a wall

Origin of immure

from Old French or ML: Old French emmurrer from Medieval Latin immurare from Classical Latin in-, in + murus, wall: see mere

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immure

transitive verb

im·mured, im·mur·ing, im·mures
  1. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
  2. To build into a wall: immure a shrine.
  3. To entomb in a wall.

Origin of immure

Medieval Latin immūrāre Latin in- in ; see in- 2. Latin mūrus wall

Related Forms:

  • im·mure′ment

    noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

  1. To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  2. To put or bury within a wall.
    John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  3. (crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
Related terms
  • immurement
Noun

(plural immures)

  1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
Origin

From Middle French emmurer, from Old French, from Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in (“in”), + mūrus (“wall”).

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